“Judge Alito’s record envisions an America where police may shoot and kill an unarmed boy to stop him from running away with a stolen purse; where federal agents may point guns at ordinary citizens during a raid, even after no sign of resistance; where the FBI may install a camera where you sleep on the promise that they won’t turn it on unless an informant is in the room; where a black man may be sentenced to death by an all-white jury for killing a white man, absent a multiple regression analysis showing discrimination; and where police may search what a warrant permits, and then some. Mr. Chairman, I humbly submit that this is not the America we know. Nor is it the America we aspire to be.”

That would be a pretty mean thing to say about someone, if it weren’t all true.

My point is not that Justice Alito is a bad Supreme Court Justice; he was and is a qualified and thoughtful legal mind. Rather, my point is that everything that Liu stated in his testimony is exactly how Justice Alito would rule. It’s not a smear if it’s true.

For speaking the truth, Liu will get his confirmation blocked yet again. So it goes.